10 January 2017

News Story: Jihadist used Philippines as training ground

By Emmanuel Tupas

MANILA, Philippines – A foreigner with suspected links to the Ansar Al-Khilafa Philippines (AKP) was training in the country before possible deployment to join extremists in Syria when he was killed in a government operation in Sarangani on Saturday.

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa said yesterday this was the information they obtained on Abu Naila, a Sudanese who was killed by government troops in a raid in Barangay Daliao, Maasim.

“He wanted to fight in Syria, but he first went here in the Philippines to train,” Dela Rosa said in a radio interview over dzMM.

Read the full story at The Philippine Star